Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes

by Geoffrey Chaucer

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; especially at the beginning of a line, or of the latter half-line. The place of the caesura is denoted by a bar. A shorter down-stroke than usual signifies a light syllable, as defined in [§ 98]. The following examples are from Group A of the Canterbury Tales:—

12. Whán-that Apríllë | with his-shóures sóte (1).